Year of the Dragon!

In Chinese culture, the Dragon is associated with luck, virtue peace and a long life.

People born in the year of the Dragon can also be a little impetuous!  My daughter was born in 2000, so I know this to be true, LOL!

Years of the Dragon are: 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012

So if you know someone born in the year of the Dragon, here are some fantastic gift ideas for them.  Equally they would make fantastic Valentine's gifts too.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at a few Dragon inspired item, simply click on them to fly over to their lairs and look at the treasure in more detail.

Thank you!



Getting Ready for Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day is Just Around the Corner!

Christmas and New Year have only just happened, but now is time to get ready for Valentine's Day, I know it may seem to early to be thinking about it, but it is better to be prepared.

Valentine's Gallery!

Here are some gorgeous Valentine items for the ladies, either for you to get for your partner, or to give them a nudge to get for you.

Just click on the picture to skip a beat to the item.

I predict there will be many more Valentine's blogs from me for a little while yet, so hopefully we'll all get a bit loved up in time.

New Year Nutters!

Happy New Year to everyone!  I hope all had an enjoyable festive period and are looking forward to a prosperous and crafty new year!

2012 is an auspicious year, we have so much to look forward to in the UK, lets hope it brings forth wonderful news for us all.

I just wanted to say a thankful farewell to the Advent Artisans daily listing club, who despite difficult times and the current economic climate, were able to achieve a wonderful 855 collective sales during the month, and although a reduction on last years December sales, still a valiant effort.

January 2012 will see the rise of the New Year Nutters daily listing club, which welcomes some familiar shops and some new faces to the listing club too, and the Nutters are well named, as I think we are all a little bonkers!  Certainly Crafting Crazy!

Nutters Stash!

I would like to show you some of the fab items already squirrelled away in the daily listing club portfolio for January, some gorgeous items I hope you will agree, and I would appreciate it if you could visit a few of the shops, to view the items in a little more detail.

I am not including any of my own items today, as I loved the colours of these together and my items were monochrome today, so just did not sit well in the gallery beside these gorgeous blues and purples.

I hope you like my blues and purples theme for the gallery today and agree that these items are just gorgeous too.

Thank you!

Winter Warmers!

Noggin-tastic winter warmers, in gorgeous yarns from the wonderful Advent Artisans!

Whether it is knit or crochet, or maybe even both, these wonderful hats cover more than just your head, they cover a variety of tastes and styles to suit every mood or whimsical fancy!  There is a hat for everyone on Folksy!

I have a little mini gallery of my own hat-tastic creations for you, both casual and formal, loose and structural!

Now to my super creative follow artisans on Folksy, I have attempted to choose a variety of styles for you, all warm and luxurious, colourful and fun!

Please just click on the picture to zoom across to the artisan's shop for full details and even more gorgeous pictures.

Remember we still have some very cold weeks to come, so we may need that new hat in the New Year!

I hope you have enjoyed my noggin-tastic choices and will visit each shop for a closer inspection.

Sparkle Tastic!

Folksy Friday Features!

Firstly, I would like to to show you some of the gorgeous stones that have come out of our stone tumbler, found on the beach in Cyprus and tumbled to a gorgeous finish, over various cycles.

This gorgeous stone was muddy brown, but after all the polishing cycles has brought out stunning chocolate browns and caramels, with druzy caves of twinkling crystals, and would you believe it, its Jasper!

And this beautiful highly polished quartz was a chalky white and very dull stone, but look how it shines now, isn't nature amazing!

Mind you, both these stone threw our stone polisher into a fit, its only used to our smaller pebble finds, and decided to spill the contents of the barrel all over the workstation, and silted up the motor; we had to purchase a new one, so have turned out to be very expensive finds in the end.  LOL!

Onwards to FF Features!

I have been so busy of late, that I have not blogged since last Friday!  So here is a FF Blog just packed fully of Folksy Friday Features, chosen just because they are lovely and just a bit sparkly!

Gorgeous fingerless mittens, with a bit of sparkle from PollyKrafts

Beautiful fused dichroic glass pendant from the equally lovely The Glass Boutique

Amazing rare Agate Druzy Drop Earrings in Sterling Silver from the dazzling JAustenJewelleryDesign

 A Rich Metallic copper and Gold embellished A6 fabric covered notebook from Ritzy Swish

Beautiful polymer clay and facetted crystal glass necklace from the wonderful carols crafts

And just my favourite item from Yesterday's listings this truly beautiful copper ring from Abyjem

I hope you have enjoyed my Folksy Friday finds and will take a sparkle tastic look at some of these shops, please just click on the pictures to visit them and see more beautiful pictures of each item.

Manic Friday!

Friday's are usually a wind down day for me, but not this Friday, with free listing on Folksy, getting the car loaded for a whole weekend craft fair, (taking all my stock), setting up at the craft fair and finishing a crocheted Trilby commission for a friend, its been all go!  Litterally!

But all done now!  Phew! So can happily relax for the evening, with a glass of wine, only the one, as have to be up early, but hey ho, enjoyable all the same!

So to finish off my day, would like to feature some of my Folksy friends with quirky and fun items.

Quirky Feature Gallery!

Super fun cards from the fantastic Squidsin!



Beautiful Recycled Champaigne Cheese board from the fantabulous blue daisy glass

Meditating Mummy by the wonderful MudMeddling

Something for the Tolkien fans from Gelert Design

A wonderful pooch creation from the pooch-tastic Dach Crafts

And finally one mad creation from myself, not sure if it is candy cane or light house like, up to you to decide.

Hope you have enjoyed my mad Folksy Friday this week and will visit the shops in question for a bit of fun and uplift on a manic day!

Thank you!

 

November Nexus Finale

November Nexus Finale!

We have come to the end of another month of the daily listing club, the November Nexus, we happy band of crafters, have prepped, sewn, painted, pinned, polished, knitted and so much more in the name of crafting and handmade goodness.

I am so pleased with the way everyone rallied round during a difficult month of change and flux, with a poor economic climate, we still mamaged a collective sales tally of 1091 at the latest update, there may yet be a few more sales to add to that tally, if Nexonians have not been on to the thread to update their totals, so fingers crossed we reach the magic 1100 figure.

Nexonian Feature Gallery!

I have decided to show case a mega feature gallery, something from few shops that posted on the final day's thread, please click on the pictures to be taken to the shop in question.

  

   

   

  

    

I hope you have liked my choices for the finale feature gallery, sorry I was not able to include something from every shop taking part.

Thank you!

xxx